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Then another 20 population. Committed even more outrageous crime and i think the 1st and extremely broken and i think a lot of women here like her straight out of the company and that sort of not just might. Get shuffled jobs just for their crimes where you just wanted to end it theres many many times people reached the years they wish you know how come you dont wake up again. To let me die it hard to find their value for yourself when you know you have no human contact so that anybody gets convicted of something its outrageous youre an automatically. Away from that person at the top level because you dont want to be associated and theres a kind somebody to live sabrina and how much and thats reporting. And on. And. On and on do we have to wrap this up now. Ok well thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you good luck to you too. Like many women on death row china for no longer has contact with her family. Her brothers and sisters want nothing to do with her and even her own mother testified against her child. In 6 years she has not had one single visit from her family. The only one who continues to write to her as her daughter jasmine. She was 17 years old when her mother was sentenced to death. Events of her any sense this nightmare haunts for a day and night. After being harassed she had to change her name and moved out of state. You often think of her mother. All the time there. Is no day that goes by i dont think right or. I wish i had a magical time machine that i can go back in time. And tire and put her in my closet. That none of this would happen that she wanted ended up. Over there when she got framed for she did it. I was a kid that had a pretty decent life. To nothing. To lower than nothing if you were 17 at the time youre a student what how the stock. Dropped out. My family turned their back on me. I lived in a tent in the middle of winter just to survive. People emailing me and said my family should be and still. They say that it was my fault. That i shouldnt be here i should be dead. I hated america. Has still do. And i love my country but i hate the people. Who sometimes youre. The phone call that would tell you that your mom might be executed yes. But if so that i want to be there. I want her to be my face not the people around her that want her dead person that wants are there. Enough for my dad wish me a full rest while i phone willing to take that risk. Her mothers execution seems inevitable. Unless she can finally have a new trial. In the United States very few women on death row managed to prove their innocence. Lawyers can fight until the last minute but they are almost never able to overturn a decision. Since 976 only 6 women have been released. We met one of them and nashville tennessee. Years on death row convicted for plotting the murder of her husband who beat her she was released in 2015 and died in 2900. For battered women. This shelter was the only place that would accept this old woman who was poor and seriously ill. After Breast Cancer a contract in prison and several pneumonia as she underwent a double mastectomy and lived with her spirit sherry assistance. They say yesterday every day no cancer in the bones. They had a miscarriage or for a while. Like to go you know do some traveling you know everything. Right now you know the thing is about saving money but you know what you know. And this place is help me do that. If it wasnt for this place. I would be living under a bridge. While you have had a lot of farce here you got your 1st cell phone yes but 1st very. We got to be part of the 1st text and found calls that later by. Now youre. Teaching myself. Michelle byron receives a retirement pension of 600. 00 a month and less than a year she will be forced to leave the home and will be on her own she will have to start all over again with no compensation from the state. All this can be long. I dont even get the money that you get when you leave prison. I mean get ahead. And you are i didnt think you would know. So now youre on your own and so are mile. Ive come through too many obstacles. To let it get me down. Michelle byron went through is inconceivable. After 14 years on death row she was suddenly released just a few hours before being executed. Yet woman convicted of killing her husband was not executed today the state Supreme Court wants more time to review the case. Michelle byron learned about her release in a surprising way. And the little girl on this for was next door to me she said youre not going to be executed youre free. And you know ive heard that so many. On the news. And on the news and. 16 to be executed in 8 hours her sentence was overturned. Michelle byron always claims sure in this that was. Own son also charged always insisted that he murdered his father. For 14 years he wrote her letters where he clearly admitted to the murder. Im going to tell you that you know i did and it wasnt for the money it was for the. Letters that were never taken into account by the court this evidence should have cleared michelle byrons name and allowing her to receive a large financial compensation and. Everybody was going to go for your new trial go see a new trial but then i found out. At the last minute there wasnt going to be a trial. And thats why i couldnt understand why all of us. Everybody turned against it. And what did you want to do then they said take the plea plate take the no contest take no contest and then a month later i figured out why they wanted me to take no contest because i had cancer i found out a month after i was finally released that i had 3rd stage Breast Cancer. And said that i have had it for years at the stage it was c. M. And they had taken a mammogram and prison so they knew i had it. What does it mean. For you taking no contest is to save their face so they dont get sick. And they dont have to pay anything. The state should have paid for initial buyers medical expenses but by signing the no contest agreement she gave up her rights although free in the eyes of the law she was not pardoned she remains guilty consequently she was not able to sue the state or obtain any compensation for her damages they took my life. Taking my life to this day still. Being taken away from me my pleasure has been taken away from me. My hopes have been taken away from me. I mean so much as even apology is. A wasted life and a deep sense of injustice. This is also what a judge at the mississippi Supreme Court thought. Oliver diaz was one of the 7 judges who reexamined. He believed from the start that her guilt was unfounded and that she needed to be released. While i was on the court in 2003 the majority of the judges voted to keep her conviction in place. Even though i had written an opinion urging the rest of my fellow judges to overturn that conviction because i thought there were problems and i thought it should be overturned she remained in prison and stayed there for i think another 11 years or so after. Now retired has never forgotten michel. Which remains his greatest. Since. Hes made a point of speaking in the media about the unfairness of the death penalty. For the poor and. Rich people generally dont go to. Poor people do. I mean if youve got the resources if youre wealthy if youre rich if youve got your own private attorneys and you can hire investigators and you have witnesses youre not to go to death row support people that cant fight back they dont have the resources if you dont have those resources the chances of you being convicted or dramatically at that point. The coronavirus has become a black swan event for the Global Economy is no longer whether the u. S. And other economies will slip into recession the question now is how deep the recession will last its going to get worse before it gets better. And his community. There are people who believe that its ok. Its really hard there are no jobs and you see the kids that ask and as a parent. I can come up with arguments and theres a lot of conflict within the game and between the teams most of the conflict i would say. Is made. Close one of the childrens children is Good Business the state of california alone makes 6000000000. 00 a year of prison complex just to get some 25. 00 where. You dont care. It is almost impossible. Once somebody is convicted once theres a conviction in place the state very rarely ever backs off i mean they they will proceed as though you are completely guilty from that point on the state will. The. Terminator movie is not going to stop until its over ive seen cases where prosecutors have. Theres newly discovered d. N. A. In the case which will tell you who should have been convicted and prosecutors will fight that they dont want this d. N. A. Tested because they already have a conviction in place. Overturning that conviction technically today for the state of mississippi is still technically she is guilty. But. In exchange the state. Of the time that she needs to serve. Means that she can sue. Money which. I think its about 100000. 00 a year for each year that you serve wrongfully sort of something around there. Somewhere over a 1000000. 00 probably sheets or there were 10 years on death row. More than a 1000000. 00 not counting medical expenses but how can you defend yourself when youre poor and about to be executed. We were able to verify the statements of this former Supreme Court judge virtually all women on death row. Had a public defender and a speedy trial. In texas another case caught our attention. Accused of killing her 2 year old daughter. It was 40 when she was convinced that in 2008 the media barely covered the story the case of a poor drug addicted hispanic woman mother of 13 children generated no interests. Her sister and her daughter in law refused to believe that melissa would have hurt mariah. It was an accident caused by a. We went to see the body before they brought her out i mean we had that in our head what happened was. They said she had trauma. To the head. And she had a broken arm. But that could have been from the. Only one i have. A buddy year and a half old. I dont believe it was melissa the did it. I dont. They were i mean there was a house full of children. Kids i mean i dont know i honestly dont believe it was her. I dont mean bone in her body i mean she never disciplined these kids so i remember her yelling you know but i. Now. I never know the senators and i wish you would if. You could all these kids theyve been through a lot richard try to hate him so. He tried to hang himself. Using this because of what they want to do wrong. One of their mom. And imagine going from foster care to foster care. And somebody elses. You need your mom. My sister was a good mother. Following the arrest of a lisa lose show the family was broken apart and the children were placed in homes all over texas. They have never seen their mother again. I dont know why my sister sitting on death row idea to society having 13 children. There just doesnt make any sense that ill. Have anybody that sat through that trial knows that my sisters child was the circus it was just awful. She stood no chance. She stood no chance we tried to be going everywhere pro bono everybody 150 just started 150008 star or do we come up with that many you can sell everything and we still dont have that many do you feel that her attorneys for the trial nope not at all. Not at all. Sister believes that the lawyers assigned to the case botched the trial. They never interrogated her family or any of her children. Since. This is where she live. Nor did they investigate an accident that mariah suffered 2 days before the tragedy. We. Could have been the cause of her head trauma. From here they were moving and in between that time that accident happened to me how i mean my sister is moving stuff so. Whatever she had. Time to abuse. The younger boys are the ones that dated. Saw. It was just coming from the smaller children m. R. I have fallen down the stairs. 13 stairs. I mean a baby i mean she had she had no. Role or protect herself and she could have been hitting her head as she was falling down and then hit her lest. They say she had a concussion to the head. Right there. Which was witnessed by a. Sons was never taken into account by the even though they had told this to the police when their mother was arrested. Despite the evidence that was never taken into account. Have all failed. The u. S. Supreme court. Shes on gainesville death row. This is the 1st time shes been interviewed about this crime she has always maintained her innocence. And the thing before. We welcome so tell me how long have you been. On death row ive been here. Going on 9 years. On august 12th will be 9 years. Did you ever think that Something Like this would happen. You know. You do feel that used to when the struggle the trial no no no no. Why is that. Because the. I think the jury when the jury walked in and they saw. They saw these pictures of my daughter. Im sure they. They agreed with what the District Attorney was you know trying to convince them that i was guilty so i think they came they came in already thinking that they were going there accused me and by me guilty of. Been no. Murdering my daughter. And how many of your appeals have been and i will. One appeal live so that means my last appeal will go into the u. S. Supreme court so that will be my last resort and if i get the night there then i get an execution date. You see here. I wouldnt say im scared. I just feel for my children. Now. Not being able to. Say goodbye to them in this thats. Whats your biggest regret. Not being the mother that i should have been to my children. Being. A drug addict. Put my drugs before i children. I think thats thats my biggest regret. You know everybody you know they they hear about that role when they won a you know put a tag on a scent and that were the worst of the worst and were not you know some of us deadly lead awful lives out there but were not the person that theyre accusing those of being in if there is if there are some women on that road that are guilty of the charge you know something was going on with them out there in the world that led them to do what they did but. Nobody can nobody should inject anybody because everybody sins every day nobodys perfect we all make mistakes a statement that could be her last words thank you thank you so much what. Is the next woman on the list of those to be executed in texas. When the. Public all right thank you only the Supreme Court can save her now. In arlington and south texas her family is also preparing for the worst. When they meet they remember happy times as if to ward off the misfortune times when Melissa Lucio danced to her brothers music. And. 6 that. That was one of melissas favorite that was the one time voice is something you can count on paper yeah sure. Growing up this is kind of like must i do more when my mom didnt want to hold on to her. Little monster which is not sure where she ever froze mosharraf roll she heard her say she was a liberal but. It wasnt. To be merged. With just. Im just scared. Hes. Trying to actually think about it because. How can i be happy how can i. Have a life and she. I have a love letter that im using to i dont know. Im scared this is sort of you know. How kids know we dont see why i dont want to be counted because im scared to eat im. Going to see you youre still sealed youre not open. Process she has no political voice you hear that. Theyre so hopeless and they settled down so. If she was executed me or she chose you go. Go. Overseas to go but i would go. For the families of those on death row is torture. And unbearable waits and often in comprehensible punishments whether these women are guilty or innocence. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Humanity is on the edge of a precipice thanks to continuing destruction of the natural world. You just seem laid out a lot of bills also received at losing market share for a later period. But it. Left the meeting you didnt hold up. For the new growth the one from the i think the carpet or the war. Or the the bottom where. Theres only dealing in the muslim world as a whole book you. Can stuff it and it then see that disables the movie. 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